It should be true artistically, by giving an artistic translation which will satisfy the sense of style of which we have spoken.

When Art has satisfied this sense of style, the object of artistic expression has been attained; nothing more can be asked.

But it is not the "vain effort of an unproductive cleverness," as our M.de Mun has said; it is an effort to satisfy a legitimate need, one of the loftiest and most honorable in human nature--the need of art.
If this is so, why should we demand that Art be useful or moral?
It is both in its own way, for it awakens noble and honest sentiments in the soul.

That was the opinion of Theophile Gautier, but Victor Hugo disagreed.

The sun is beautiful, he used to say, and it is useful.